Wetter for paper-box machines



(No Model.)

B. H. TAYLOR. I WETTER' FOR PAPER BOX MACHINES.

Patented Ju'neQ, 1891.

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EUGENE H. TAYLOR, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE 'OUSIIMAN PAPER BOX MACHINE COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

WETTER FOR PAPER-BOX MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 453,987, dated June 9, 1891.

Application filed September 19 1890. Serial No. 365,558. (No model.) 7

T0 aZZ who'nt it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EUGENE H. TAYLOR, of Lynn, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Vet ters for Paper-Box Machines, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

This invention is intended as an improve ment on the machine shown in United States Patent No. 418,690, dated January 7, 1890, and has more especial reference to the wetting devices or wetters used to wet the paper-board on the line in which it is to be bent.

In this invention the construction of the wetters and the devices for supporting them have been simplified and made to be more nearly self-adapting to the thickness of the board. Each wetter is composed of a rock ing head grooved for the reception of a moisture-holding pad, and the head rests on a plunger sustained by a spring on a stand placed in a holder, a series of said stands lying end to end in the said holder, according to the size of the box to be made.

Figure l in elevation shows a holder partially broken out to show two stands and wetter-heads, one of the stands and heads being in vertical section; and Fig. 2 is an end View of Fig. 1.

The holder b is and may be the same as designated bylike letter in United States Patent No. 418,690. This holder receives a series of stands a, in which are placed plungers b, sustained by springs c and shaped at their upper ends to carry the wetter-head (Z, composed of a metal block adapted to rock in the direction of its length on the said plunger. Each head is grooved to receive a moisture- 0 holding pad 6, preferably a piece of cloth doubled and placed in the groove of the said head, and preferably held in place by a thread or cord fiinserted through the head and pad. The pad, if injured, may be quicklyrenewed. 4,5 The springs, one for each wetter, enable it to adapt itself vertically to the thickness of the paper-board above it, and the point of the plunger serves as a fulcrum on which the wetter-head is free to rock or tip in the direction of its length.

The wetter-head, mounted on the springsustained plunger, readily adapts itself to the thickness of the board by reason of the spring, and by its freedom to tip adapts itself to va- 55 riation in thickness and to cockled or wavy parts of the board.

I claim- 1. The wetter-head having the pad, com- 'bined with the stand and the spring-sup- 6o ported plunger therein, substantially as described.

2. The holder, a series of stands therein, and spring-sustained plungers, combined with aseries of rocking heads, each provided with 65 a pad, to operate substantially as described.

In testimony whereof .I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUGENE H. TAYLOR. Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, EDWARD F. ALLEN. 

